The European Commission has published a Green Paper entitled On a European Strategy on Plastic Waste in the Environment, to gather facts and views that will enable it to assess the environmental impacts of plastic waste and define a European strategy to mitigate them. The paper highlights the importance of plastic in many industrial processes and applications, and notes the need to manage plastic waste in a more effective way, with potential economic gains derived from higher recycling rates. The paper notes that the challenges posed by plastic waste are not...